New Lucy Letby Panel

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2024/07/is-lucy-letby-innocent.html.
Because of legal reporting restrictions, nobody in the media was permitted to give out information about the trial of Lucy Letby until the verdict. Once that verdict was reached they all started like greyhounds out of the trap. The restriction was to ensure Lucy Letby got a fair trial, which on reflection seems rather futile. A new panel has been assembled to discuss the case and it has decisively recommended an appeal or retrial. The panel consists of experts in neonatal medicine, including some whose testimony was used in the trial. The leader is Dr Shoo Lee, a University of Toronto researcher. He wrote a paper in 1989 that the prosecution presented against Letby and now Dr Lee says that this evidence was misused. They go on to explain how they believe Letby was simply a victim of bad luck; the record of her duty periods caused it to look statistically significant that she happened to be there when the babies died, but it was just coincidental. Most of the babies died of natural causes and those who didn't were victims of medical malpractice. As I said in the background article, unlike some other people I know, I doubt very much that the hospital were aware of this and used Lucy as a scapegoat; if this were the case we'd see nurses being thrown in jail every week. What's more there is a medical negligence case ongoing against the Countess of Chester trust over the babies' deaths and injuries anyway. Despite this, I would not be surprised if the panel are correct and that the Letby case deserves a judicial review. I'm not somebody who puts down hospital porters, obviously; but I don't think I'm qualified enough to say for sure. However, I do understand that nobody caught Lucy red-handed. In fact there is no direct evidence against her at all. Her journal is not a confession; it could have been a dream diary for all we know. Recording ones thoughts and feelings in a periodic way is often used as a part of psychotherapy. Yes, it was unprofessional of her to fixate on the details of the babies' relatives on social media, but that doesn't mean she had anything to do with the deaths. That action is really just a product of her private thoughts and feelings, as much as her journal is. Dr Dewi Evans, the prosecution's key witness, rejected the findings of Dr Lee's panel. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8y28ny1n0o. The panel has many supporters including Peter Hitchens and David Davis MP. Here is Davis debating the subject with a believer in the original verdict: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4PqkWV4vY0. We'll now have to wait to see how the Review Commission responds. Apparently the Letby cause has spawned numerous online conspiracy theories... I look over my shoulder in innocent confusion! Nevertheless, we live in a country in which prisons are notoriously filling up with innocent people like a reservoir in a rainstorm. How media silence helped Lucy Letby get a fair trail I cannot imagine. If you are a nurse, or another medical professional including porters (of course!) and civilian PAM's; are you next? Are you going to be arrested and spend the rest of your life in prison because of incompetent and irresponsible police officers and lawyers?